Trichinosis
Prevention in Dogs and Cats – Domestic and Wild Game Diet
No need
to fear feeding raw…
Trichinosis prevention in dogs, cats - domestic and wild game diet is a simple matter of
understanding which meat to use, avoid, and best preparation methods for
incorporating into a raw diet or gently cooked diet.
Trichinosis – What Is It?
Trichinosis
is a disease found in wild carnivores, wild omnivores, wild and domestic
herbivores, and domestic pigs.
Trichinosis
is a food-borne infection that may be transmitted by consuming raw or under
cooked meat from animals that are infected with Trichinella – a nematode
intestinal roundworm commonly found in wild animals. When the flesh of an
infected animal contains live trichinella larvae that embed in cysts, the cysts
can pass through your dog’s, cat’s intestinal tract to invade other tissues,
such as your dog’s, cat’s muscle tissue. The nematodes can cause damage to the
tissue, resulting in minor and major symptoms of trichinosis. If only a few
cysts are consumed, infection may not occur.
The likelihood of infection, and severity of infection increases with
the number of trichinosis cysts consumed. Your dog or cat cannot infect you
with trichinosis.
Trichinella
may be present in domestic pigs, domestic horses, wild animals (wild ‘game’)
such as brown and black bear, boar, other wild carnivores, omnivores including
small rodents, herbivores such as deer, small rodents, and wild fowl, and
marine animals such as polar bears, seals, walruses.
How to Avoid Trichinosis via Trichinella Infection When Feeding Your
Dog, Cat Raw Meat
Domestic
pigs can carry the trichinosis infection, however the cysts can be killed by
freezing pork in cuts of 6” (15.24 cm) thick, or less for 20 days, at 5 F, -15
C. If you are purchasing pork from a grocery store, butcher or local farmer you
can ask them if this freezing process was done.
This same
freezing technique is NOT reliable for wild game meats as the trichinella
present in wild game tend to be cold-hardy.
The NCBI provides a chart reporting the resistance of trichinella cysts
to freezing – you can view that chart here.
If you
are going to be feeding your dog or cat raw, wild game meat (from wild
carnivores, omnivores or herbivores), make sure you are sourcing the wild game
from a reputable supplier, or area known to have a low rate of trichinella.
How to Avoid Trichinella in Cooked Meat
Make sure
you cook wild game meats, and pork as per the Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. Microwaving, or smoking meat will NOT kill the
cysts that cause trichinosis infection.
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✅ Custom Designed Whole Food Diets - raw or gently cooked, and;
✅ Advice and Recommendation:
✓ Premade Diets - raw, dehydrated, freeze dried
✓ Supplemental Fresh Foods - raw, gently cooked
✓ Super foods
✓ Treats - raw, dehydrated, freeze dried, gently cooked
✓ Herbs
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